50 Essential Lessons

Tools and Techniques for Teaching English Language Arts

Jim Burke’s lessons focus on core cognitive and personal skills—reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself—that are required in school, on state tests and college entrance exams, and in life.

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50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills—reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself—required on state tests and college entrance exams. Whether used to enhance your English Language Arts curriculum or as a stand-alone resource, 50 Essential Lessons will help you teach your students the academic essentials.

Components:

50 Essential Lessons (book of lessons) presents 50 standards-based lessons organized around the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and beyond.

Tools and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons provides a bank of teaching tools and lesson-related readings in a clear, reproducible format.

Tools for 50 Essential Lessons CD–ROM organizes the charts, forms, and other teaching tools in an electronic format that is easy to scan and print.

Key Features

Lesson preview notes situate the lesson into your English Language Arts curriculum and provide the information needed to jump in and get started.

The Teach section of each lesson offers Jim’s teaching demonstration, chronicling his teaching moves and language in a model lesson.

The Assess and Extend section of each lesson lists strategies for reinforcing or extending student learning and plans to help you tailor the lesson to the needs of your particular students.

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Samples

Try an Essential Lesson with your own class.

The following sample pages provide a complete lesson and its related teaching resources.

A Lesson from 50 Essential Lessons50 Essential Lessons presents 50 standards-based lessonsized around the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and beyond. The lesson sampled here is Lesson 5, “Draw Conclusions from What You Read: Effective readers draw conclusions about the meaning and purpose of what they read.

Tools for 50 Essential Lessons
90+ teaching tools support the essential lessons and scaffold strategy use with multiple genres and texts of varying lengths across the curriculum. These tools are provided in a reproducible format in Tools and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons. Tools for 50 Essential Lessons CD-ROM provides these same tools in an electronic format that is easy to review and print out. The following tools are referenced in Lesson 5: Draw Conclusions from What You Read.

Texts for 50 Essential Lessons
Jim’s model lessons draw on texts that are either common to English classrooms or are real-world readings that Jim uses in his class. These core resources are provided in a reproducible format in Tool and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons. The following real-world reading is referenced in Lesson 5: Draw Conclusions from What You Read.